Recommended Sites for Grades K-8

There are free lessons and links on this website plus a link to EconEdLink, (or go directly to eoconedlink) where teachers can select On-Line Lessons and search for lessons by title, concept, grade level, or standard. GREAT LESSONS!

• Council for Economic Education

This award-winning site has great information on it directly, and links to MANY other economics and business education sites.

• EcEdWeb from the University of Nebraska at Omaha

These are excellent activities involving writing and reflection in microeconomics, macroeconomics and international economics. See especially the ‘Acquisition of Threshold Concepts in Economics’ and ‘Improving the Quality of Students’ Economic Arguments’ in Current Projects.

• Centre for Economics and Business Education (CEBE)

The Federal Reserve banks coordinate their lessons, publications, and information for teachers at this site. Check out the links to the other Feds as well, especially San Francisco.

• Federal Reserve Bank System

A collection of Freakonomics columns by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt for the New York Times.

• Freakonomics Collection

This is a mega-site with over 1300 lessons and activities on virtually any subject, for grades preschool through 12. They even link lessons directly to Illinois State Standards

• PBS TeacherSource

This is a resource for teachers and students across the country, with lesson plans, curricula, and information on learning opportunities in the field of economics. The offerings of the Powell Center can be applied in any school environment, by teachers or administrators who are interested in improving students’ understanding of economics.

• Powell Center for Economic Literacy

Lessons, games, calculators for elementary, middle, and high school students, plus parents and SPANISH-LANGUAGE materials are on this website. It also correlates lessons to Illinois State Standards in English, math and social studies.

• Practical Money Skills

See especially the curriculum MoneyMath, which addresses financial literacy for middle-school students. The overall site has facts and games for kids to learn what bonds are, how they can be purchased, and how they mature.

• Savings Bonds for Kids

This is an excellent FREE site with cartoon stories to teach good decision making and basic economics to children (K-2), with brief quizzes and prizes at the end of each story.

• Wise Pockets

This excellent market simulation teaches children how the stock market works, as well as other economic and personal finance lessons. Participate in InvestWrite, a teacher-designed writing competition created to reinforce students’ critical thinking skills.

• The Stock Market Game

This is an interdisciplinary site with links to excellent educational sites for economics, geography, humanities, math, and science.

• Thinkfinity

MV=PQ, Timothy Schilling’s Blog at the Powell Center for Economic Literacy, has a nice list of recommended economics-related blogs.

• MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators